Today, on the occasion of World Rabies Day, WHO, OIE and FAO are calling on countries to accelerate efforts to combat rabies in three steps: EDUCATE by raising awareness of rabies among at-risk populations

VACCINATE by implementing large-scale dog vaccination and ensuring prompt delivery of post-exposure treatment to humans in areas at risk of rabies ELIMINATE

by targeting a world free from dog-mediated human rabies deaths by 2030

28 September 2016 – The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are reiterating their call for a world free from human rabies transmitted by dogs by 2030. This year’s theme – Educate, Vaccinate, Eliminate – outlines the key steps required to attain this goal in line with the global vision endorsed at the WHO/OIE Global Rabies Conference organized in collaboration with FAO and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control held in December 2015.

20 September 2016

Wednesday's meeting of global leaders at the United Nations General Assembly is significant in part because it will be only the fourth time in the history of the UN that a health topic has been on the agenda at a high-level meeting of the General Assembly. The group plans to discuss coordinated efforts to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide. read more...

13 September 2016

Health authorities are awaiting the test results of 30 people in Bangkok suspected of having contracted the mosquito-borne Zika virus from 22 people recently confirmed to have been infected. read more...

12 September 2016

Twenty-one cases of the Zika virus have been reported in Bangkok's Sathon central business district, and officials are now watching for more possible infections in several adjacent districts. read more...

3 September 2016

KUALA LUMPUR: A 61-year-old man diagnosed with the first case of a locally transmitted Zika infection in Malaysia has died from heart disease complications, and not from the mosquito-borne virus, the health ministry said on Saturday (Sep 3). read more...